dogs are people too

i was at the store the other day (shameless plug for the love of my life, target. i could live there and be perfectly content, i'm pretty sure) and i saw this


and i literally scoffed to myself and thought "that little dog doesn't shed! it has hair, not fur." (something i wouldn't have known two years ago) This guy, on the other hand, sheds like a PETA member who's just been told she's actually wearing a REAL fur coat:

so then i took mr. teddy to the groomers where they gave him a 4-hour bath and brush to get all that extra fur outta there. here's milo and teddy riding in the car - for whatever reason, milo thought there was cooler stuff to look at out of teddy's window. (you can gaurantee one of two things about a person driving with their windows down on a 15-degree day... she either is a smoker or has dogs... or both, but i only have dogs)


other ways milo likes to ride in the car:



teddy came back from the groomer smelling and looking his best. and he fell in love with his groomer (this place's motto is, "love the snot out of every dog that comes in by using enough baby talk to induce vomiting out of every dog owner that comes in") i was excited. i even swept up all the loose doggie hair on the floor while he was gone to prepare for this new, less hairy phase in our relationship. an hour later, meghan came over. teddy greeted her at the door with this



so pretty much i just paid for my dog to have a 4-hour massage.... who does that?? so, turns out teddy's not good at not shedding. what he IS good at however, is knowing to put his toys away



i can't blame him really. apples and tennis balls look the same to me too.

milo, on the other hand, is the world's best saver. he buries EVERYTHING. i've found underwear, pens, rolls of tape... buried in the back yard. the problem with burying stuff is then other dogs can find it. like when the neighbor dog took milo's toy home with her. for whatever reason, this is how it was returned to us. i found it sitting in the front yard

maybe my neighbors wanted me to dust it for fingerprints to prove that it wasn't their dog who stole it

this is bloody brilliant

in case you've already lost track of all the pop hits of '08, here a 4-minute mashup. 

my jaw is still on the floor with the brilliance of this video

....also, i'm feeling a little bit old because i've never heard a lot of these songs... 

should i take this as a sign?

so i had this dream last night where i was playing in this new-age orchestra. (by the way, i wasn't playing the flute. i was playing a piccolo that looked like a tape measure... what would you expect from a new-age orchestra??) anyway, we were practicing with this animal trainer who was dancing panthers and tigers around the stage in sync with our music. the trainer was coaxing the cats with a tennis ball, that he accidentally bounced outside the door (because we practiced with the door open, duh).

the cats ran out the door to follow it and we all looked out the window to see that every other new-age orchestra practicing their animal routine on our same street made the same mistake. this whole herd of wild animals started booking it down the street, people jumping every direction out of harm's way, mother's yanking their children up into their arms to protect them....

and what was i doing? why pulling out my camera phone and trying to find the best angle to take a picture, of course! the whole time thinking "this'll make a great blog post!"

the good news is, at least i wasn't dreaming about ddr...

why meghan rocks at giving gifts

i don't think there's ever been anybody more excited to give gifts than meghan. i think it's because

1. she never gets you something she wouldn't be excited to get herself (which isn't that hard to do because you could give her a piece of chewed gum with a bow on it and she'd jump and down with excitement like a...well, like a meghan opening a present)

2. she pays no attention to how old you are when it comes to gift giving. it's way more fun to get toys regardless of your age. period. 

so we made this a "play with the toys meghan got us" weekend. starting with the kite she got for the boy's birthday. 

once we're done flying it for its last time, we're going to use all those ribbons on the back of it to wrap up lots and lots of chewed gum as a thank you gift for meghan. 

and then she came over to help build the boy's christmas present - a tin can robot. the boy had a vision of this video before we even started building the thing that meghan and i just shrugged at and entertained. i took all the pictures while meghan and the boy built. then meghan and i went to play ddr (don't judge us) while the boy went to work creating this masterpiece. i love this guy